Forests and Insects

By: Allan D. Watt, Nigel E. Stork, Mark D. Hunter

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Hardcover | 30 September 1997

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This book covers the full breadth of forest entomology. It combines the work of forest entomologists working on the impact and management of forest pests with those involved in diversity assessment and conservation of insects in forests. Forests and Insects demonstrates that both these disciplines demand an understanding of population and community biology.
The book covers such topics as colonization of trees by insects, population dynamics of forest insects, insect natural enemies, the effects of climate change and pollution on forest pests, spatial variation in the abundance of insects,the mineralization of carbon by termites, the impact of herbivorous insects, and the conservation of forest insect diversity, including the effects of forest fragmentation and deforestation.
This Royal Entomological Society Symposium volume will be of great interest to all agricultural and forest entomologists, population and community biologists, pest management specialists and anyone concerned with the conservation of forest biodiversity.

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`The book is a very useful source of research information, and provides a good selection of relevant topics in the area of forest entomology ... The book should be present in all entomological research libraries.'
European Journal of Entomology, 96 (2000)

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List of contributors
Preface
Introduction
Colonization of Trees by Insects	p. 1
Adaptations of phytophagous insects to life on trees, with particular reference to aphids	p. 3
Host specificity in forest insects	p. 15
Temporal and Spatial Population Ecology	p. 35
Population dynamics of forest insects: are they governed by single or multiple factors?	p. 37
The impact of parasitoids and predators on forest insect populations	p. 49
Herbivore-induced responses in trees: internal vs. external explanations	p. 69
Incorporating variation in plant chemistry into a spatially explicit ecology of phytophagous insects	p. 81
Forest structure and the spatial pattern of parasitoid attack	p. 97
Insects in Forest Ecosystems	p. 107
Termites as mediators of carbon fluxes in tropical forest: budgets for carbon dioxide and methane emissions	p. 109
Herbivory in forests: from centimetres to megametres	p. 135
Forest Pests	p. 151
Comparative analysis of patterns of invasion and spread of related lymantriids	p. 153
Threats to forestry by insect pests in Europe	p. 177
Forest pests in the tropics: current status and future threats	p. 207
The impacts of climate change and pollution on forest pests	p. 229
Insect Diversity	p. 249
Patterns of use of large moth caterpillars (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae and Sphingidae) by ichneumonid parasitoids (Hymenoptera) in Costa Rican dry forest	p. 251
Impact of forest loss and regeneration on insect abundance and diversity	p. 273
Beetle abundance and diversity in a boreal mixed-wood forest	p. 287
An overview of invertebrate responses to forest fragmentation	p. 303
Impact of forest and woodland structure on insect abundance and diversity	p. 321
Ficus: a resource for arthropods in the tropics, with particular reference to New Guinea	p. 341
Insect Conservation	p. 363
Arthropods of coastal old-growth Sitka spruce forests: conservation of biodiversity with special reference to the Staphylinidae	p. 365
Conservation corridors and rain forest insects	p. 381
Insect conservation	p. 395
Index	p. 401
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